Windows Jobs in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Windows
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Windows skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Windows over the 6 months to 6 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 11 21 18
Rank change year-on-year +10 -3 -4
Permanent jobs citing Windows 4,187 6,887 7,385
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.20% 10.36% 11.39%
As % of the Operating Systems category 70.12% 58.67% 59.22%
Number of salaries quoted 3,272 5,192 5,927
10th Percentile £25,750 £24,013 £22,750
25th Percentile £29,500 £29,000 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year - +6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £53,750 £54,750 £53,750
90th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £66,000
UK median annual salary £44,400 £45,000 £43,500
% change year-on-year -1.33% +3.45% -3.33%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

Windows is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,971 11,739 12,471
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.82% 17.67% 19.23%
Number of salaries quoted 4,489 7,765 9,226
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,709 £24,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
75th Percentile £60,000 £61,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £73,800 £74,589 £70,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Windows as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Windows in the UK excluding London

Windows
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Windows in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Windows in the UK excluding London

Windows
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Windows in the UK excluding London

Windows
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 December 2023. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +7 1,269 £41,500 +3.75% 624
North of England +14 842 £37,000 -1.33% 513
South West +8 670 £42,500 +1.29% 274
Midlands +10 655 £40,000 -5.88% 353
West Midlands +11 412 £40,000 -5.88% 212
Yorkshire +13 404 £36,500 +1.39% 205
North West +7 376 £37,500 - 243
Scotland +8 317 £44,480 -1.16% 129
East of England +5 270 £36,000 -7.07% 206
East Midlands +7 240 £42,500 -2.30% 141
Wales +18 124 £38,500 -14.44% 48
North East +9 63 £32,500 -13.33% 72
Northern Ireland +5 58 £40,500 -14.74% 28
Channel Islands +8 2 £50,000 -
Windows
UK

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 344 (8.22%) SharePoint
2 205 (4.90%) MS Exchange
3 136 (3.25%) IIS
4 31 (0.74%) Apache
5 29 (0.69%) WebLogic
6 28 (0.67%) WebSphere
7 23 (0.55%) Confluence
8 17 (0.41%) nginx
9 14 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2010
9 14 (0.33%) Skype for Business
10 12 (0.29%) WebSphere Application Server
11 7 (0.17%) CMS
12 6 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
12 6 (0.14%) SharePoint Server
13 5 (0.12%) Tomcat
13 5 (0.12%) WordPress
14 4 (0.096%) MQSeries
14 4 (0.096%) OpenStack
14 4 (0.096%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 3 (0.072%) Site Server
Applications
1 527 (12.59%) Microsoft Office
2 72 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 51 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.24%) AutoCAD
5 9 (0.21%) PTC Creo
5 9 (0.21%) SOLIDWORKS
5 9 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.14%) Acrobat
7 5 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.12%) Trello
8 4 (0.096%) LibreOffice
8 4 (0.096%) MS Visio
9 3 (0.072%) OrCAD
10 2 (0.048%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 8 (0.19%) Unit4 Business World
2 7 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
2 7 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (0.096%) assyst
3 4 (0.096%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.072%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.048%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.048%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.048%) Visualfiles
6 1 (0.024%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 1 (0.024%) Misys Equation
6 1 (0.024%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.024%) Sage 50
6 1 (0.024%) Sage X3
6 1 (0.024%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.024%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,674 (39.98%) Microsoft 365
2 1,597 (38.14%) Azure
3 490 (11.70%) AWS
4 445 (10.63%) Entra ID
5 228 (5.45%) SaaS
6 163 (3.89%) IaaS
7 134 (3.20%) PaaS
8 119 (2.84%) Azure DevOps
9 113 (2.70%) OneDrive
10 82 (1.96%) OpenShift
11 80 (1.91%) GCP
12 54 (1.29%) Power Platform
12 54 (1.29%) WhatsApp
13 50 (1.19%) Mimecast
14 44 (1.05%) Cloud Computing
15 28 (0.67%) Azure Monitor
15 28 (0.67%) Google Workspace
16 27 (0.64%) GitHub
17 26 (0.62%) Azure Sentinel
17 26 (0.62%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 823 (19.66%) DNS
2 739 (17.65%) Firewall
3 734 (17.53%) DHCP
4 478 (11.42%) WAN
5 463 (11.06%) TCP/IP
6 440 (10.51%) LAN
7 375 (8.96%) VPN
8 282 (6.74%) SAN
9 243 (5.80%) Wireless
10 233 (5.56%) VLAN
11 170 (4.06%) Wi-Fi
12 139 (3.32%) VoIP
13 110 (2.63%) Internet
14 108 (2.58%) HTTP
15 97 (2.32%) Network Security
16 84 (2.01%) Remote Desktop
17 79 (1.89%) Intrusion Detection
18 69 (1.65%) SNMP
19 67 (1.60%) SD-WAN
20 50 (1.19%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 418 (9.98%) SQL Server
2 97 (2.32%) Amazon RDS
3 91 (2.17%) MySQL
4 57 (1.36%) Relational Database
5 43 (1.03%) Oracle Database
6 39 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
7 37 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
7 37 (0.88%) Power BI
8 36 (0.86%) MongoDB
9 30 (0.72%) RDBMS
10 27 (0.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 22 (0.53%) DB2
12 19 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 18 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
14 17 (0.41%) NoSQL
15 14 (0.33%) SAP HANA
16 13 (0.31%) InfluxDB
17 12 (0.29%) BusinessObjects
17 12 (0.29%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
17 12 (0.29%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 115 (2.75%) JIRA
2 112 (2.67%) Git
3 85 (2.03%) Jenkins
4 48 (1.15%) Selenium
5 47 (1.12%) GitLab
6 36 (0.86%) MSI
7 34 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
8 26 (0.62%) Visual Studio
9 25 (0.60%) Robot Framework
10 21 (0.50%) SonarQube
10 21 (0.50%) Subversion
11 18 (0.43%) NUnit
12 17 (0.41%) SoapUI
13 16 (0.38%) AdminStudio
13 16 (0.38%) Bitbucket
13 16 (0.38%) InstallShield
13 16 (0.38%) Oracle APEX
14 15 (0.36%) TeamCity
15 12 (0.29%) IBM UrbanCode
15 12 (0.29%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1,374 (32.82%) Social Skills
2 380 (9.08%) Finance
3 344 (8.22%) Analytical Skills
4 231 (5.52%) Organisational Skills
5 174 (4.16%) Law
6 164 (3.92%) Retail
7 149 (3.56%) Public Sector
8 141 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 139 (3.32%) Manufacturing
10 129 (3.08%) Telecoms
11 127 (3.03%) Legal
12 120 (2.87%) Presentation Skills
13 85 (2.03%) Aerospace
14 70 (1.67%) Games
15 54 (1.29%) Banking
16 53 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
17 43 (1.03%) Military
18 36 (0.86%) Marketing
19 34 (0.81%) Back Office
20 33 (0.79%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 692 (16.53%) Support Engineer
2 644 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 622 (14.86%) Analyst
4 605 (14.45%) Senior
5 546 (13.04%) IT Support
6 483 (11.54%) IT Engineer
7 288 (6.88%) Support Analyst
8 285 (6.81%) IT Support Engineer
9 268 (6.40%) 2nd Line Support
10 232 (5.54%) IT Analyst
11 227 (5.42%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 191 (4.56%) Administrator
13 184 (4.39%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 182 (4.35%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 169 (4.04%) Service Analyst
16 168 (4.01%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
17 159 (3.80%) Lead
18 153 (3.65%) IT Support Analyst
19 147 (3.51%) Service Desk Analyst
20 139 (3.32%) 3rd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (3.34%) .NET
2 70 (1.67%) HTML
3 52 (1.24%) Web Services
4 51 (1.22%) XML
5 42 (1.00%) Spring
6 36 (0.86%) Elastic Stack
7 34 (0.81%) CSS
7 34 (0.81%) React
8 28 (0.67%) ASP.NET
8 28 (0.67%) Middleware
9 26 (0.62%) J2EE
9 26 (0.62%) Java EE
10 25 (0.60%) .NET Framework
11 24 (0.57%) JSON
12 23 (0.55%) REST
13 20 (0.48%) .NET Core
13 20 (0.48%) Node.js
13 20 (0.48%) WPF
13 20 (0.48%) YAML
14 18 (0.43%) MFC
Miscellaneous
1 249 (5.95%) Driving Licence
2 241 (5.76%) Data Centre
3 181 (4.32%) Self-Motivation
4 145 (3.46%) Virtual Team
5 142 (3.39%) Management Information System
6 137 (3.27%) Public Cloud
7 119 (2.84%) PKI
8 85 (2.03%) Private Cloud
9 78 (1.86%) Clustering
10 77 (1.84%) Security Operations Centre
11 71 (1.70%) Replication
12 46 (1.10%) CMDB
13 42 (1.00%) Client/Server
13 42 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
14 40 (0.96%) Onboarding
15 37 (0.88%) Smartphone
16 34 (0.81%) EPoS
16 34 (0.81%) iPhone
17 32 (0.76%) NHS
18 31 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1,720 (41.08%) Windows Server
2 1,109 (26.49%) Linux
3 758 (18.10%) Windows 10
4 375 (8.96%) Windows Server 2019
5 369 (8.81%) Windows Server 2016
6 314 (7.50%) Windows Server 2012
7 299 (7.14%) Android
8 251 (5.99%) Unix
9 149 (3.56%) Windows 7
10 148 (3.53%) Mac OS
11 140 (3.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 138 (3.30%) Apple iOS
13 72 (1.72%) Windows 8
14 70 (1.67%) Windows Server 2003
15 68 (1.62%) Windows Server 2008
16 53 (1.27%) CentOS
17 37 (0.88%) Ubuntu
18 25 (0.60%) Windows XP
19 24 (0.57%) Mac OS X
20 23 (0.55%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 854 (20.40%) Problem-Solving
2 806 (19.25%) ITIL
3 742 (17.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 717 (17.12%) Customer Service
5 453 (10.82%) Agile
6 409 (9.77%) Cybersecurity
7 348 (8.31%) Actionable Insight
8 330 (7.88%) DevOps
9 319 (7.62%) Service Management
10 292 (6.97%) Mentoring
11 288 (6.88%) Incident Management
12 234 (5.59%) Infrastructure as Code
13 225 (5.37%) Project Management
14 211 (5.04%) Disaster Recovery
15 196 (4.68%) Problem Management
16 193 (4.61%) Service Delivery
16 193 (4.61%) Software Engineering
17 185 (4.42%) Change Management
18 173 (4.13%) SIEM
19 172 (4.11%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 842 (20.11%) PowerShell
2 563 (13.45%) SQL
3 385 (9.20%) Python
4 242 (5.78%) Bash
5 227 (5.42%) C#
6 223 (5.33%) Java
7 146 (3.49%) C++
8 91 (2.17%) JavaScript
9 60 (1.43%) C
10 55 (1.31%) VBScript
11 50 (1.19%) VB
12 43 (1.03%) T-SQL
13 41 (0.98%) Shell Script
14 33 (0.79%) PL/SQL
15 32 (0.76%) Ruby
16 29 (0.69%) Perl
17 25 (0.60%) TypeScript
18 24 (0.57%) RPG
19 21 (0.50%) PHP
19 21 (0.50%) RPG IV
Qualifications
1 790 (18.87%) Security Cleared
2 623 (14.88%) Degree
3 528 (12.61%) SC Cleared
4 321 (7.67%) DV Cleared
5 276 (6.59%) Microsoft Certification
6 156 (3.73%) Cisco Certification
7 116 (2.77%) MCSE
8 92 (2.20%) CCNA
9 87 (2.08%) DBS Check
10 86 (2.05%) Azure Certification
11 70 (1.67%) ITIL Certification
12 68 (1.62%) CISSP
13 64 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
14 61 (1.46%) CISM
15 60 (1.43%) A+ Certification
16 51 (1.22%) SSCP
17 50 (1.19%) MCP
18 47 (1.12%) CompTIA Security+
19 45 (1.07%) MCSA
20 41 (0.98%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 346 (8.26%) SLA
2 166 (3.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 106 (2.53%) Cyber Essentials
4 82 (1.96%) GDPR
5 54 (1.29%) QA
6 27 (0.64%) NIST
7 22 (0.53%) PCI DSS
7 22 (0.53%) PMO
8 20 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 13 (0.31%) NCSC
10 12 (0.29%) ISO 9001
11 10 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
12 8 (0.19%) Accessibility
12 8 (0.19%) Data Quality
13 7 (0.17%) COBIT
13 7 (0.17%) Disclosure Scotland
14 6 (0.14%) JSP 440
15 5 (0.12%) GRC
15 5 (0.12%) RMADS
16 4 (0.096%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2,004 (47.86%) Active Directory
2 854 (20.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 568 (13.57%) Hyper-V
4 190 (4.54%) Docker
5 144 (3.44%) VMware ESXi
6 116 (2.77%) vSphere
7 102 (2.44%) Firmware
7 102 (2.44%) Virtual Desktop
8 84 (2.01%) Virtual Machines
9 41 (0.98%) XenApp
10 35 (0.84%) Virtual Servers
11 29 (0.69%) VMware NSX
12 25 (0.60%) Microsoft App-V
13 23 (0.55%) XenDesktop
14 21 (0.50%) Terminal Services
15 15 (0.36%) BitLocker
16 13 (0.31%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 11 (0.26%) VMware Workstation
18 9 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
19 6 (0.14%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 512 (12.23%) SCCM
2 429 (10.25%) Microsoft Intune
3 311 (7.43%) Ansible
4 261 (6.23%) Terraform
5 220 (5.25%) Kubernetes
6 167 (3.99%) Puppet
7 166 (3.96%) SCOM
8 103 (2.46%) WSUS
9 83 (1.98%) vCenter Server
10 57 (1.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 55 (1.31%) Failover Clustering
12 49 (1.17%) FortiGate
13 48 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
14 46 (1.10%) Microsoft Clustering
15 38 (0.91%) AirWatch
15 38 (0.91%) Nessus
16 31 (0.74%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
17 27 (0.64%) Jamf Pro
18 26 (0.62%) Grafana
18 26 (0.62%) OpenSSO
Vendors
1 2,055 (49.08%) Microsoft
2 1,212 (28.95%) VMware
3 410 (9.79%) Cisco
4 244 (5.83%) Citrix
5 238 (5.68%) Oracle
6 196 (4.68%) HP
7 174 (4.16%) Apple
8 167 (3.99%) Dell
9 166 (3.96%) Veeam
10 157 (3.75%) ServiceNow
11 156 (3.73%) Red Hat
12 114 (2.72%) Google
13 89 (2.13%) Meraki
14 72 (1.72%) SolarWinds
15 64 (1.53%) Remedy
16 63 (1.50%) Sophos
17 61 (1.46%) Aruba
18 56 (1.34%) IBM
18 56 (1.34%) SAP
19 43 (1.03%) Fortinet